Apparel.



PATBNTED APR. 80, 1907.

0. R. DE BBVOVISE.

APPAREL. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 7, 1906.

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WITNESSES:

ATTORNEY TENS 60., WASHINGTJN, A c4 CHARLES R. DE BEVOISE, OF NEIVARK, NET/V JERSEY.

APPAREL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 30, 1907.

Application filed June 7,1906. Serial No. 320,671.

To (all who) it may con/067w.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES li. Dr, Bi:- VoisE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New J ersey, have invented new and useful Improvements in Apparel, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a bodice having pants or drawers combined therewith.

This invention resides in the novel .fca t-ures of construction set forth in the following specification and claim and illustrated in the annexed drawing, in which:

Figure 1. is an inside view of a garment cmbodying this invention. Fig. 2 is a section along x a Fig. 1.

This garment or apparel comprises a bedice/or body portion a and a lower portion 1) forming a pair of drawers or pants. The upper and lower portions are sewed or secured together to be permanently connected. The bodice opens at the back. Such bodice is suitably boned or provided with steels c. The closed front of such bodice will cause a neat appearance or fit to be secured when worn as an undergarment. The bodice is shown composed of pieces united by seams which can be designated as an upper bust seam (Z, a bias gore seam e and a vertical gore seam f. The word vertical of course is not necessarily limited to mathematically per pendicular but refers to a scam extending downwardly along the garments as indicated. A bodice cut and made up as indicated enables the body and pants portions to be sewed together so as to tit the wearer smoothly or without shirring, puckoring or wrinkling. WVhen worn with an outer garment such apparel or undergarment will not cause any fold or irregularity which spoils the contour or interferes with the fit of the dress or any portion thereof.

A tab is shown at g. This tab is placed at the lower inner portion of the bodice. Such apparel when combined with a fastening tab I drawers portion has each leg sewed or secured by a scam running unbrokenly about the waist line. The front of the body part is per: inanently closed so that no oint or line of buttons will interfere with a neat .[it of the outer garment over the bust. The rear portions of the body part extend beyoiul the drawers or I leg parts so that as the garment is put on and the rear parts of the body are overlapped as the bodice is drawn tight the drawer portions will not be caused to overlap or crease one another.

I claim:

1. A bodice having an entirely closed front and provided with bone stays, leg portions secured to the bodice and depending therefrom, and a tab interposed between the leg portions and secured and depending from said bodice and having a series of eyelets, said bodice being extended at opposite sides beyond the leg portions to close said bodice at the rear thereof.

2. A bodice having a closed front and separate legs fastened to the lower edge of the bodice, the rear portions of the bodice being free of the legs a ndv extending rearwardly be yond the latter, the bodice having a pendent ilap or tab between the legs for connection with a corset.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES R. DE BEV OISE.

W'itnesses EDWARD WinsNEn, GEORGE HULsBERG. 

